This hour we’ll talk about how Churchill developed that toughness as a soldier fighting in South Africa with Candice Millard. She’s the author of “Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill” (Doubleday).”
This hour, we’ll talk with Melody M. Miyamoto Walters on what she learned from reading her grandparents’ correspondence in Hawaii during World War II, the subject of her book “In Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple.”
This hour, we’ll talk about the tricky business of working with other nations while maintaining our values with Ted Galen Carpenter, co-author of “Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes.”
We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
This hour, we’ll speak with spy novelist Alan Furst about his latest tale of WWII espionage, Midnight in Europe.
Hour 2: We’ll talk this hour with David Kaiser about how Roosevelt guided the country during the tumultuous years of World War II.
